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DragonFlyBSD founder Matthew Dillon posted an update on his syslink protocol which he defined as, "a message based protocol that can devolve down into almost direct procedure calls when two localized resources talk to each other." The syslink API will be used to talk to both local resources on the same node as well as to remote resources on a different node. Earlier documentation further explained the networking nature of the protocol, "the Syslink protocol is used to glue the cluster mesh together. It is based on the concept of reliable packets and buffered streams. Adding a new node to the mesh is as simple as obtaining a stream connection to any node already in the mesh, or tying into a packet switch with UDP." In another email Matthew explained how various DragonFlyBSD nodes utilize Syslink to automatically establish the optimal physical route.

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